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White House Reveals Student Loan Default Rate

At the end of 2014, the New York Fed reported a surprisingly high delinquency rate for student loans – 11.3%. Now the latest data released by the White House reveals that number may in fact be dramatically higher. As the Wall Street Journal reports: New figures covering more than 3,700 schools were released as part […]

Empty Vaults Serve as a Warning: Keep Your Gold Close

An apparent gold scam recently uncovered in Austin, Texas, serves as reminder for investors to use caution when dealing with small, unknown companies. According to the Austin American-Statesman, the vaults belonging to an Austin company claiming to store millions of dollars in precious metals for its customers turned up virtually empty.

Comex Update: Plunge in Available Gold for Delivery

The latest update from CME Group shows a huge outflow of gold held for delivery by Comex. There are now less than 6 tons of registered physical gold available for delivery. For every 207 ounces of gold claimed by paper contracts on the Comex market, there is only one ounce of physical gold in Comex […]

World’s Top Gold Consumers Keep on Buying

The world’s two leading consumers of gold continue to demand more. Gold imports spiked in India in August, building on a year-long trend, as gold also continued to flow into China. According to the Times of India, 15.78 metric tons of gold were imported into India last month. That compares to 7.2 tons of gold […]

Foreign Central Banks Yanking Gold Out Of Fed’s Vaults

Foreign central banks want their gold back and they are pulling it out of Federal Reserve bank vaults. According to a recent Federal Reserve report on its foreign official assets, physical gold holdings fell 9.6 tons last month to 5,950 tons. Total foreign physical gold held by the Fed now sits at just over $8 […]

Newly Released White Paper: The Student Loan Bubble

This article accompanies SchiffGold’s newly released white paper, The Student Loan Bubble: Gambling with America’s Future. To learn more about the shocking student debt bubble, click here for a free download. “You need a college degree to succeed in America.” This idea has become so commonplace that the right to higher education is now a […]

Frightening Data Points to Potential Market Panic & Fed Inaction

Yesterday, the Arms Index (TRIN) spiked dramatically to levels not seen since 2011 and nearly twice as high as last week’s “Black Monday.” The Arms Index is a way of measuring how balanced the stock market is, with higher values suggesting the market might head in a bearish direction sooner than later. As ZeroHedge describes […]

This Month in Gold – August 2015

South Korea, China Buying Up Gold Reuters, Bloomberg – South Korea and China both reported an increase in gold purchases last month. Based on first-half sales through the country’s largest gold merchant, South Koreans are on pace to purchase $860 million in bullion – a yearly record. Analysts estimate South Koreans hold around 800 metric […]

Ray Dalio Follows Peter Schiff’s Lead: Watch for Minor Rate Hike, then QE4

In mid-July, Scott Nations of CNBC as much as laughed in Peter Schiff’s face when Peter predicted the Federal Reserve may raise interest rates a very small amount before launching a fourth round of quantitative easing in 2016. Nations said: It seems that you’re a little bifurcated here. You say that you think the Fed […]

When World Leaders Tell the Public, “Don’t Panic”…

This article was submitted by Addison Quale, SchiffGold Precious Metals Specialist. Any views expressed are his own and do not necessarily reflect the views of Peter Schiff or SchiffGold. Bloomberg recently published an article about how world political leaders don’t have too much to say about the current sell off in equities – the worst […]